Fritz Busch

studies at the Cologne Conservatoire, conducting with Frith Steinbach, piano with Karl Boettcher and Lazzaro Uzielli, and theory and composition with Otto Klauwell

1909–1910

Conductor at the Deutsches Theater in Riga

1909–1912

Chief conductor of the Spa Orchestra in Bad Pyrmont, where he frequently meets Max Reger

1910–1910

Conductor at the Deutsches Theater in Riga

1910–1912

Musical director of the Gotha Musikverein

1911

Marriage with Grete Boettcher († 1966) in Mengeringhausen

1912–1918

Music Director of the City of Aachen

4 April 1914

Birth of the son Hans Peter Busch

1914–1918

volunteers at the beginning of the Great War, fights near Langemarck, receives the Iron Cross, falls severely ill and is transferred to Rudolstadt as instructor of recruits; he is frequently dispensed in order to conduct concerts in Aachen and elsewhere

10 June 1916

Birth of the daughter Margareta Busch, who in 1940 married the baritone Martial Singher

1918–1922

Court conductor, later General Music Director, of the Court, later State Orchestra of Württemberg in Stuttgart

6 October 1919

Birth of the daughter Gisela Busch

1922–1933

Saxonian General Music Director, Dresden

May 1933

goes to England, from where in June he emigrates to South America

28 May 1934

becomes founder Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and opens the festival with Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro

dies in Guildford (Vermont) shortly after having completed a setting of Psalm 6 for chorus, orchestra and organ, Op. 70

Adolf Busch was a prolific composer, his œuvre comprising vocal, instrumental, organ and chamber music; only music for the stage is missing in his output

Willi Busch

23 April 1893

born in Siegen
bookseller’s apprentice at the P. J. Tonger bookshop in Cologne
attends the Actors’ School in Cologne

1912–1914

first engagement at the Deutsches Theater in Cologne

1914

engagement at the Deutsches Künstlertheater in Berlin

1914–1915

fights at the Eastern front during the Great War

1916–1917

is a member of the front theatre at the German Theatre in Brussels

1919–1947

Senior actor at the newly founded Bochum Municipal Theatre, where he performs all major classical and many contemporary roles; is hailed as an impressive character actor

31 June 1931

marries the actress Margarethe Thelemann († 1994) who ends her career after the marriage

24 March 1932

Birth of the son Frieder

1939–1942

Director of the Westphalian Actors’ School in Bochum

1945–1946

rebuilds the Theatre after the Second World War

1947–1951

Member of the ensemble of the Cologne Municipal Theatre

10 May 1951

dies in Cologne after having collapsed on stage during rehearsals

Elisabeth Busch

6 October 1894

born in Siegen
studies at the Arts and Crafts School in Düsseldorf
receives tuition as an actress at the “Deutsche Werkstätten” in Cologne
first engagement at a small theatre

1917

performs at the Deutsches Theater in Brussels together with her Brother Willi

1917

marries Bruno Senkpiel

1918

Birth of the daughter Gisa

1920

appears in a silent movie

1927

is divorced from her 1st husband

1931

2nd marriage to Heinrich Krampe

22 September 1965

dies in Düsseldorf

Hermann Busch

24 June 1897

born in Siegen

1906

first cello tuition from the father
studies at the Cologne Conservatoire with Professor Friedrich Grützmacher

from 1912

studies at the Vienna Musikakademie with Professor Paul Grümmer

during the Great War

as a soldier first member of a band in Goch at the Lower Rhine, then of the Brussels Symphony Orchestra
1919–1923
Solo cellist in Bochum and member of the Treichler Quartet

1922–1951

performing together with Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin; 1926 official founding of the Busch/Serkin Trio

1923–1927

Solo cellist of the Wiener Symphonie-Orchester (previously Konzertvereins-Orchester); until 1930 additionally extensive activity as a soloist, later increasingly performing together with his brothers Fritz and Adolf

18. Mai 1924

marries Lotte Ising († 2000)

1925

Birth of the daughter Trudy

1927–1933

Teacher at the newly-founded Folkwang School for Music, Dance and Recitation in Essen

1930–1933

Cellist in the Busch Quartet as successor to Paul Grümmer

April 1933

cancels all performances in Germany in consequence of the beginning pogrom and emigration to Basle

from 1935

Member of the Busch Chamber Players

1940

moves to the US

1950

Co-founder of the School of Music in Marlboro (Vermont)

1954–1965

Professor at the University of Miami (Florida)

3. Juni 1975

dies in Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania)

Heinrich Busch

28 June 1900

born in Siegen
studies piano in Leipzig, music theory with Max Reger
studies piano with Max von Pauer in Stuttgart